This is a true statement, but not relevant to your question. I was
discussing DSA keys, and you're asking about RSA. You can use any
hash with RSA that you like. There are no restrictions in size or
otherwise. The only thing you have to worry about is whether your
recipient can handle that h
On 05/28/2006 12:03 AM, David Shaw wrote:
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>> David Shaw in a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> about DSA2 said:
>>> 3) Allowing truncation of a bigger hash to fit into the however many
>>>bits the key allows.
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell at the moment, PGP 8 allows only #3. That
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:02:15PM +0200, Qed wrote:
> I was investigating the possibility to use a RSA master key with SHA256
> or SHA512 as certification digest algorithm.
> The problem is, as usual, compatibility.
>
> I don't know anything about the diffusion of the various PGP versions
> and t
I was investigating the possibility to use a RSA master key with SHA256
or SHA512 as certification digest algorithm.
The problem is, as usual, compatibility.
I don't know anything about the diffusion of the various PGP versions
and their capabilities.
I've found a PGP compatibility table, written
